| excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #601192] |
Sun, 30 April 2006 21:46  |
 shadycatwedding
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I am look specifically for excerpts from novels to be read at a wedding by bridal party or family. Comments about love or relationships.
The bride and groom will not be reading the excerpts.
I am hoping to find something by JD salinger and am reading many books as fast as I can, but I need help or ideas of books to look into....
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #603370] |
Fri, 05 May 2006 10:48  |
CarrieKei
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Check the Giant Ceremony Readings Repository thread. Also, I've always really liked this:
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At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (good for a macho guy who's not willing to read "flowery" stuff)
our wedding photos
the traveling IB veil
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #606010] |
Fri, 12 May 2006 09:50 |
Gigi
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James and the Giant Peach was one of my favorite books.
Thanks sushigirl - I'll have to check that out.
On a similar note, I've been thinking about checking out Charlotte's Web.
(And some Shel Silverstein poems.)
One poem I found by EB White I posted here. It's got Charlotte written all over it.
It is a poem so I hope I don't taint the purpose of this thread but it's not ooey gooey so maybe you guys would like it.
ETA: actually, sorry I don't think I know how to cross post, if that's what you call it. Here's the poem. I promise after this to just stick to books. 
Natural History
The spider, dropping down from twig,
Unfolds a plan of her devising,
A thin premeditated rig
To use in rising.
And all that journey down through space,
In cool descent and loyal hearted,
She spins a ladder to the place
From where she started.
Thus I, gone forth as spiders do
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken thread to you
For my returning.
-- E. B. White
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #634628] |
Tue, 25 July 2006 18:33 |
shadycatwedding
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I found something...
from Jane Eyre
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #634639] |
Tue, 25 July 2006 19:03 |
Scoot
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Shadycatwedding, that's really nice! "A solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you..." Very romantic.
You got to dance with them what brung you.
-- Molly Ivins, on making the best of bad politicians
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #634696] |
Tue, 25 July 2006 22:50 |
shadycatwedding
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I know I really love that Jane Eyre passage!
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #635440] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 13:54 |
anderjen
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| shadycatwedding wrote on Tue, 25 July 2006 18:33 |
I found something...
from Jane Eyre
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
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Shadycat, that's one of my favorite books, but I don't remember that passage. Whereabouts in the book is it? What scene?
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #635816] |
Fri, 28 July 2006 09:27 |
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Actually it's not from the scene under the tree--it's from chapter 27 and it's what Rochester says to Jane when he's pulling out all the stops and is trying to convince her to stay and be his mistress despite crazy Bertha in the attic. And then Jane says no and escapes and is homeless for a while and then takes up with her cousins and almost moves to India but doesn't (etc, etc). It's a lovely quote, but the context isn't quite so sweet.
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| Re: excerpts from Novels to read at a wedding [message #636025] |
Fri, 28 July 2006 15:20 |
meggle
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I would love to find something from Pride & Prejudice. This is short, but it's a nice line:
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
(Mr Darcy, when asked by Elizabeth how he came to fall in love with her.)
*March 24, 2007*
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